Creating Sacred Space:
Ecological Design and Building
I look for ways to integrate the human and non-human worlds through design and building craft—projects that help bring quiet, calmness, activated awareness, focus, beauty, resonance, a momentary glimpse of the ineffable into a person's life:
• spaces for meditation and music
• garden rooms
• stringed instruments and other auditory features
• details that catch light in a way that enlivens space
• attention to acoustics
Ecological perspective is inseparable from design that activates perception and allows for the possibility of sacred experience.
Crucial ecological design considerations:
• solar orientation
• thermal comfort
• natural light
• airflow
• access to views
• nontoxic, natural materials and building process
As much as possible I use materials that are close to their source, salvaged, and hand-fabricated.
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Available for consulting, design and building projects:
— custom woodcraft, coppercraft
— cabinetry and furniture
— sound structures/integral instruments
— artistic tile design and setting
— framing and finish carpentry
— cob, adobe, fiber-adobe, slipstraw, strawbale
— earth and lime plaster
— living roofs
— landscape integration• ecological design:
— siting and orientation
— appropriate materials
— sensible energy strategies
— water conservation
— habitat enhancement
— design for human comfort and livability